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AMBROSE (fl. 119o)

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AMBROSE (fl. 119o) , See also:Norman poet, and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a See also:work called L'Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming See also:French See also:verse the adventures of See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion as a crusader. The poem is known to us only through one Vatican MS., and See also:long escaped the See also:notice of historians. The See also:credit for detecting its value belongs to the See also:late Gaston See also:Paris, although his edition (1897) was partially anticipated by the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who published some selections in the twenty-seventh See also:volume of their Scriptores (1885). Ambrose followed Richard I. as a non-, combatant, and not improbably as a See also:court-See also:minstrel. He speaks as an See also:eye-See also:witness of the See also:king's doings at See also:Messina, in See also:Cyprus, at the See also:siege of See also:Acre, and in the abortive See also:campaign which followed the See also:capture of that See also:city. Ambrose is surprisingly accurate in his See also:chronology; though he did not See also:complete his work before 1195, it is evidently founded upon notes which he had taken in the course of his See also:pilgrimage. He shows no greater See also:political insight than we should expect from his position; but relates what he had seen and heard with a naive vivacity which compels See also:attention. He is prejudiced against the See also:Saracens, against the French, and against all the rivals or enemies of his See also:master; but he is never guilty of deliberate misrepresentation. He is rather to be treated as a biographer than as a historian of the Crusade in its broader aspects. None the less he is the See also:chief authority for the events of the years 1190-1192, so far as these are connected with the See also:Holy See also:Land. The See also:Itinerarium Regis Ricardi (formerlyattributed to See also:Geoffrey Vinsauf, but in reality the work of Richard, a See also:canon of Holy Trinity, See also:London) is little more than a See also:free See also:paraphrase of Ambrose.

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book of the Itinerarium contains some additional facts; and the whole of the Latin version is adorned with See also:flowers of See also:rhetoric which are See also:foreign to the See also:style of Ambrose. But it is no longer possible to regard the Itinerarium as a first-See also:hand narrative. See also:Stubbs's edition of the Itinerarium (Rolls See also:Series, 1864), in which the contrary See also:hypothesis, is maintained, appeared before Gaston Paris published his See also:discovery. See the edition of L'Estoire de la guerre sainte by Gaston Paris in the Collection See also:des documents inedits sur l'histoire de See also:France (1897); the editor discusses in his introduction the See also:biography of Ambrose, the value of the poem as a See also:historical source, and its relation to the Itinerarium. R. See also:Pauli's remarks (iri Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, See also:xxvii.) also deserve attention. ' (H. W. C.

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